The Prisoner’s Dilemma: How Cooperation Trumps Competition

Surveys consistently rank the U.S. as the most individualist culture in the world. Our ideal man or woman is independent and self-reliant. Unlike collectivist cultures (Japan, China, Mexico, etc.) we give primacy to the individual over family, community or social class. 
For Americans coming of age in the middle of the 20th century, one Hollywood actor [...]